Sororate
Sororate is Complementary to the practice of levirate. It is the practice of marrying sister...
Category: Anthropology
Cross Cousin Marriage
It is types of m’age b/w children of sibling of opposite sex i.e m’age...
Parallel Cousin Marriage
It is the marriage b/w children of siblings of same sex i.e marriage of offspring of...
Polygamy
It refers to a marriage to more than one person i.e plurality of husbands...
Polyandry
It refers to marriage in which more than one husbands are engaged in marital...
Adelphic or Faternal Polyandry
when serval brothers share same wife
Non-Fraternal or Non-Adelphic Polyandry
Here husband are not brothers of each other
Familial Polyandry
A female married to father & some simultaneously.
Polygyny
it refers to marriage in which one common husband is engaged in marital ties with more...